By Jonathan Stempel and Sruthi Ramakrishnan (Reuters) – Sprint Nextel Corp on Monday said it has sued Dish Network Corp to block its tender offer for Clearwire Corp, on the eve of a key deadline in a takeover battle that also includes Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Corp. The lawsuit filed on Monday in Delaware Chancery [...]
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Big oil company shares showed mixed results Monday after a group of Jefferies analysts shifted their ratings on some related stocks. Analysts Iain Reid, Brendan Warn, Laura Loppacher, Matthew Lambourne and Daniela Almeida said in their note that major oils have been a poor investment in recent years, underperforming the S&P as a group by [...]
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TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – PDIP menuntut pemerintah membuat paspor bagi para BMI (Buruh Migran Indonesia)/TKI overstayers dan bukan SPLP (paspor sementara). Dokumen itu dibutuhkan sebagai travel dokument sekali jalan untuk pulang ke Indonesia. Eva Kusuma Sundari, politisi PDIP dan anggota Pansus Revisi UU 39 tahun 2004 tentang Penempatan dan Perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di Luar Negeri [...]
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TOKYO (AP) — Jitters over a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Federal Reserve helped pull share prices mostly lower in early Asian trading Tuesday. Asia’s biggest benchmark, Japan’s Nikkei stock average, shed early gains to fall 0.6 percent by mid-morning in choppy trading, to 12,956.78. Hong Kong‘s Hang Seng index dropped 0.7 [...]
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JERUSALEM, KOMPAS.com — Spanyol mengusung ambisi besar mempertahankan gelar juara Piala Eropa U-21. Pada partai final kejuaraan tahun ini, La Rojita akan berhadapan dengan pemegang rekor gelar terbanyak level U-21, Italia. Pada laga yang akan berlangsung di Stadion Teddy, Jerusalem, itu, pasukan Julen Lopetegui membawa kepercayaan diri tinggi menyabet empat kemenangan sebelum melangkah ke final. [...]
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By Xiaoyi Shao and Jonathan Standing BEIJING (Reuters) – China‘s house prices rose at the fastest pace this year in May from a year earlier, though the pace of gains eased from the previous month, highlighting the dilemma facing the central bank as it balances the need to support the economy against holding down housing [...]
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For sellers, it seems, the dream has arrived. Unfortunately, it turns out that the dream sometimes comes with a bit of an attitude problem. Many buyers who are reliant on a mortgage are willing to bow and scrape a bit, happy to take a home with questionable detailing or a suspicious water spot on the [...]
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Mortgages come in two primary forms, fixed rate and adjustable rate, with some hybrid combinations and multiple derivatives of each. A basic understanding of interest rates and the economic influences that determine the future course of interest rates can help consumers make financially sound mortgage decisions, such as making the choice between a fixed-rate mortgage [...]
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By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson said it would pay up to $ 1 billion for Aragon Pharmaceuticals and its experimental drugs for prostate cancer, to bolster J&J‘s role in the field after it acquired another experimental prostate-cancer treatment four years ago that has become a leading brand. J&J on Monday said Aragon‘s [...]
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By Chikako Mogi TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares slid on Tuesday as investors waited on tenterhooks for news of the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee’s plans for its stimulus program – with the mere suggestion of fine-tuning it enough to unnerve investors. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> fell 0.7 percent, dragged [...]
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